Means for supporting mattresses on bed-frames.



No. 807,389. PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905.

P. J. LEYENDBGKBR.

MEANS FOR SUPPORTING MATTRESSES ON BED FRAMES. APPLICATION FILED 0011,1904.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

IETER J. LEYENDEOKER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MEANS FOR SUPPORTING MATTRESSES 0N BED-FRAMES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER J. LEYENDEG- KER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadel hia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Means for Supporting Mattresses on Bed-Frames, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in supporting structures for metallic mattresses and it consists more particularly in a device whereby a folding mattress of the type described in an application for United States patent filed by me June 15,1904, Serial N 0. 212,728, may be pro erly applied to and supported upon a metal ic bed-frame of any of the forms commonly in use.

I attain my ob'ect as hereinafter set forth, reference being ad to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a bed-frame, showinga spring-mattress in position thereon and illustrating the application thereto of my improved. supporting means, a portion of the wire mattress proper being broken away in order to more clearly illustrate the construction of the device. Fig. 2 is an enlarged end elevation, partly in section, of the device shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a sectional eleation, also enlarged, taken on the line 3 3,

I have found that a serious objection to various types of folding mattresses, as well as to the ordinary forms of metallic mattresses, in which but a single frame is employed, is due to the fact that said mattresses are not conveniently adaptable for use on the different constructions of metallic bed frames commonly manufactured, and while my invention hereinafter described is particularly applicable to that form of folding-mattress il ustrated and claimed in my application abov referred to it will be understood that it may be employed with advantage with other forms of folding or single-frame mattresses,

In the above drawings, A represents a metallic bed-frame of well-known construction, there being suflicient of this illustrated a beingsimilarly connected by a foot-bar a- For supporting my improved folding mattress, or indeed any other form of mattress,

upon this structure I provide at each end of said structure a transverse angle-section B, supported by the side bars a and held from moving transversely thereon by means of lugs or projections 1) near its ends, which engage horizontal portions of said side bars, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3. r

The folding mattress which it is desired to support in the present instance consists of two similar frames hinged together and having stretched on them a body C of woven wire or equivalent material. Each of these frames consists of,two parallel angle-sections c, rigidly held apart by struts 0, formed of pieces of tubular metal connected together and to said sections 0 by means of metallic sockets c and c The sockets c are riveted or bolted to the angle-sections c and rest upon the horizontal portion of the transverse angle-sections B, being held in position thereon by hook projections or lugs 0 which extend over the upwardly-projecting edges of said sections B. These latter sections may be made of any length suitable for'the bedframe to which the particular mattress is applied, and it will be noted that with the construction of parts described and illustrated it is possible to fold one of the mattress-sections over upon the other without disarranging the position of the mattress as a whole upon the frame, there being two of the sock ets c to each of the angle-sections c of the mattress-frame, so that each end of said frame is held to the transverse angle-section B by two of the lugs 0 The mattress is therefore removably held in proper position upon the bed-frame when in position for use as well as when one part is folded upon the other to permit of cleaning underneath the bed.

with woven wire, it is to be understood that my device may be equally well adapted to mattresses of other construction without departing from the invention.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination with a bed-frame and a mattress having a supporting-frame, of a transverse bar or bars supporte by said bed- While I have illustrated a mattress made nected to said members, a mattress having a supporting-frame, and means at each end of said mattress constructed to removably engage said bars for maintaining the mattress in a fixed position relatively to the bedframe, and means other than said mattressmaintaining means for supporting the mattress, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a bed-frame, a folding mattress, and bars for supporting said mattress on said frame, means for retaining the bars in position, means positively connecting the mattress to said bars for preventing relative movement of said parts, and means other than said connecting means for transferring the weight of the mattress to the supporting-bars, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a bedframe, mattress-supporting bars carried by but movable independently upon said bed-frame, a folding mattress including frames hinged together, and projections on each end of said mattress-frames placed to engage said bars,substantially as described.

5. The combination of a bed-frame, a folding mattress including frames hinged together and each having at its ends a plurality of lugs, and angles on the bed-frame each having a substantially vertical flange for en gagement with said lugs, whereby the mattress is maintained in its extended position, said angles being carried by but movable independently of said bed-frame, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a bed-frame having side members, angle-sections respectively at they head and foot of the frame and extend ing between said side members thereof, pro jections on said angle-sections engaging the side members, a mattress, and a frame there for, including castings having hook lugs placedto engage the edges of certain of the flanges of said angle-sections, substantially as described.

7. The combination of a bed-frame having side members, angle-sections respectively at the head and foot of the frame and extending between said side members thereof, projections on said angle-sections engaging the side members, a mattress and a frame therefor, including castings having hook lugs placed to engage the edges of the vertical flanges of said angle-sections, said castings resting upon and being supported by the horizontal flanges of said angle-sections, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

PETER J. LEYENDECKER.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM E. BRADLEY, Jos. H. KLEIN. 

